The Universal Bulgarian
12.78€
25,00 лв.
367 pages
Description
It was the century of the Ioans, who in Bulgaria were called the Ivans. In Constantinople the basileus was Ioan Palaiologos, and in Tarnovo — Ivan Alexander, who had replaced the Serbian protégé Ivan Stefan. (...) There is yet another Ioan, who later took the monastic name Yosif, and whom the historians have left in complete oblivion, ignored and neglected, perhaps entirely on purpose. Who knows?! But in this book he will, categorically and deservedly, be called “the Universal Bulgarian,” because in the author’s view he deserves it, standing proudly upon the pedestal of his deeds...
A5
367 pp.
It was the century of the Ioans, who in Bulgaria were called the Ivans. In Constantinople the basileus was Ioan Palaiologos, and in Tarnovo — Ivan Alexander, who had replaced the Serbian protégé Ivan Stefan.
(...)
There is yet another Ioan, who later took the monastic name Yosif, and whom the historians have left in complete oblivion, ignored and neglected, perhaps entirely on purpose. Who knows?! But in this book he will, categorically and deservedly, be called “the Universal Bulgarian,” because in the author’s view he deserves it, standing proudly upon the pedestal of his deeds.
– the author
The world of Angel Hadzhipopgeorgiev is complex, dramatic to the utmost, filled with a deep knowledge of spiritual elevation, of the pain and the suffering of the Bulgarian in the turbid years shortly before and immediately after Bulgaria’s fall beneath the darkness of Ottoman bondage. These are times that seem familiar, yet are in fact largely forgotten, left unlit by our curiosity and by any lasting knowledge of some of the most significant events in the life of the Bulgarian people. The novel “The Universal Bulgarian” in large measure illuminates the tragic, indeed the grievous events that foreshadow the easy — I would call it untroubled — penetration of the conquerors into the bounds of Bulgaria and of the entire Balkan Peninsula. The author skillfully and in detail analyzes the causes that led to this want of will, to this spineless resistance, which turn the Bulgarian, and the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, into a despairing and yet majestic victim of the Ottoman hordes.
– Academician Vladimir Zarev
A5
367 pp.
It was the century of the Ioans, who in Bulgaria were called the Ivans. In Constantinople the basileus was Ioan Palaiologos, and in Tarnovo — Ivan Alexander, who had replaced the Serbian protégé Ivan Stefan.
(...)
There is yet another Ioan, who later took the monastic name Yosif, and whom the historians have left in complete oblivion, ignored and neglected, perhaps entirely on purpose. Who knows?! But in this book he will, categorically and deservedly, be called “the Universal Bulgarian,” because in the author’s view he deserves it, standing proudly upon the pedestal of his deeds.
– the author
The world of Angel Hadzhipopgeorgiev is complex, dramatic to the utmost, filled with a deep knowledge of spiritual elevation, of the pain and the suffering of the Bulgarian in the turbid years shortly before and immediately after Bulgaria’s fall beneath the darkness of Ottoman bondage. These are times that seem familiar, yet are in fact largely forgotten, left unlit by our curiosity and by any lasting knowledge of some of the most significant events in the life of the Bulgarian people. The novel “The Universal Bulgarian” in large measure illuminates the tragic, indeed the grievous events that foreshadow the easy — I would call it untroubled — penetration of the conquerors into the bounds of Bulgaria and of the entire Balkan Peninsula. The author skillfully and in detail analyzes the causes that led to this want of will, to this spineless resistance, which turn the Bulgarian, and the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, into a despairing and yet majestic victim of the Ottoman hordes.
– Academician Vladimir Zarev
